White Flight

Report on Low Racial Desegration Depicts Less White Flight

Deborah Plummer | Posted 04.07.2012

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Deborah Plummer

A recent report concluded that racial segregation in U.S. cities is at its lowest in a century. Though great news, I do not believe that the demographics have shifted because of an intentional desire for racial integration. Given the current economy, it is just harder for spatial racism to exist.

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Matt Sledge

'The Pruitt Igoe Myth' Finds Architecture's Big Flop Was Somebody Else's Fault

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 01.21.2012

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The images of its destruction are some of the most iconic in all of modern architecture. Less than 20 years after they went up, the towers of the Prui...

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Barack Obama and the American Dream

Lauri Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lauri Lyons

The past four decades have been a mixture of social growing pains and progress. Even with that said, most people never believed that a Black man would become the President.

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Two by Earth, Three by Fire: Detroit Revisited

Lester Sloan | Posted 11.17.2011

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Lester Sloan

Ironically, it is still Detroit that gives the suburbs a sense of place and America a reason to hope.

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